Discourse on Colonialism
by Aimé Césaire
Europe called it civilization. Césaire called it what it was.
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ésaire wrote this essay in 1950 and it remains the most precise dismantling of the colonial project ever assembled. His central argument: colonialism doesn't just harm the colonized — it brutalizes and degrades the colonizer. Europe's claim to have brought civilization to the world is a lie, and the proof is what Europe did to get there. Forty pages. Irrefutable. The dispatch that gave an entire generation of anti-colonial thinkers their vocabulary.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Martinique • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Martiniquais author
- Themes
- anti-colonialism
- Topics
- colonialism
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